Ziyaad Mia is a Toronto lawyer active in human rights, national security, animal welfare and civic issues. He is also an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Ziyaad is the founder of Give 30, which is an innovative Ramadan-based social initiative designed to mobilize people of all faiths and moral persuasions on a grassroots level in the fight against hunger.

Entries by Ziyaad Mia

Former Prime Minister Harper launched Bill C-51, the Anti-terrorism Act, 2015, at a campaign-style event in Richmond Hill, Ontario, on Jan. 30, 2015. According to Harper, C-51 was a response to "violent jihadism." That event was emblematic of the politicization...

"The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny...The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but, 'Can they suffer?'"

Canada is a land of plenty. Yet, despite that prosperity, some of our neighbours do not have enough to eat. Some may go for an entire day without food, simply because they do not have enough money; they are forced to choose between eating and paying the rent.

Strange, because its moniker suggests ownership of Arabia by the Al Saud family, and because it's a society devoid of the rule of law. It's governed, or more accurately, ruled, by an absolute monarch beyond the reach of legality and accountability. Absence of...

Recently CTV's W5 aired an episode called "Food for Thought," which included undercover video shot by Mercy for Animals. The images depict pigs in Manitoba housed in gestation stalls apparently suffering as a result of their living conditions and at the hands of their human minders. It is...